Qi Xu - Research Associate
Qi Xu joined NREL in 2004 as a Research Associate in the Chemical Sciences team. His research focuses on nanobiotechnology. His main research interest is array quantum dots (QDs) on cellulose using cellulose binding modules (CBMs) and investigating their possible application pathways in energy transferring and biomaterials. His research also includes the QDs' communication and the interaction of protein and oligopeptide with QDs. His earlier research work involved construction of bacterial cellulosome system, novel CBM investigation, and plant phosphate transportor gene cloning. He has published 20 papers.
Dr. Xu received his Ph.D. in Cytogenetics, Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 1996. He was a postdoc at Tel Aviv University, Israel (2000–2004). He held an International Fellowship at IACR-Rothamsted, UK (1999–2000) and was a visiting scientist at State Key Lab of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1998–1999).
Selected Publications
-
Xu Q, Barak Y, Kenig R, Shoham Y, Bayer EA, Lamed R, "A novel Acetivibrio cellulolyticus anchoring scaffoldin that bears divergent cohesions," Journal of Bacteriology 186(17), 5782–5789 (2004).
-
Xu Q, Bayer EA, Goldman M, Kenig R, Shoham Y, Lamed R., "Architecture of the Bacteroides cellulosolvens cellulosome: Description of a cell surface-anchoring scaffoldin and a family 48 cellulase," Journal of Bacteriology 186(4), 968–977 (2004).
-
Xu Q, Morrison M, Nelson KE, et al., "A novel family of carbohydrate-binding modules identified with Ruminococcus albus proteins," FEBS Letters 566(1-3), 11–16 (2004).
-
Qi Xu, Shi-You Ding, Wenchen Gao, Rina Kenig, Yuval Shoham, Edward A. Bayer, and Raphael Lamed, "The cellulosome system of Acetivibrio cellulolyticus includes a novel type of adaptor protein and a cell-surface anchoring protein," Journal of Bacteriology Vol. 185, No. 15, 4548–4557 (2003).
NREL Publications
View NREL publications for this staff member.
Other Team Members
Qi Xu |